Water Online Highlights

1. Manufacturing In Alabama And The Current Environment 4/6/2020

   What’s a business leader to do at time such as this? What is a manufacturing business leader to do at a time such as this? Does it really matter whether a business is a service provider such as a restaurant or is a manufacturer? If so, does it matter what the company manufactures?

2. Pittsburgh Agrees To Replace Thousands Of Lead Pipes To Clean Up Its Drinking Water 4/6/2020

   Negotiated by local groups, the settlement will address the city’s long-standing lead contamination while prioritizing the health of its most vulnerable residents.

3. Applying Data-As-A-Service To The Wastewater Sector 4/6/2020

   A major concern with real-time monitoring networks is the accuracy and reliability of data. In 2017, the Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) surveyed 23 global water utilities about their Big Data management practices as part of a Water Research Foundation (WRF) study, including their barriers to adoption.

4. The Post-Coronavirus Outlook For Water Startups 4/6/2020

   The coronavirus fallout economy is going to be hard, but water is core to our ability to respond to the virus, and to underpinning the long-term resilience of society. Well-positioned companies in water hold real advantages in the short, medium, and long term.

5. Common Types Of UV Lamps For Chemical-Free Water Disinfection 4/2/2020

   When it comes to water and wastewater treatment systems, operational and performance variation will come from different components, including what treatment processes are deployed, whether chemicals are utilized, or how much power the treatment processes require. With many treatment systems, there is much consideration given to a particular central component akin to the heart and soul of the process. In the case of a UV system, the ultraviolet (UV) lamps are this component.

6. HST™ Turbocompressor For Sky-High Savings In Wastewater Treatment 4/2/2020

   The town of Fraser, Colorado, USA, with an annual mean temperature of 32.5°F is the coldest town in the lower 48 states and gets frost year-round. At an elevation of 8’574 feet, it is also the highest location for Sulzer’s HST 20 turbocompressor in the world. The Fraser WWTP high-speed blower upgrade was completed in early 2019, replacing older centrifugal blowers, which were loud and costly to operate.

7. HST Turbocompressor Survives Category 4 Hurricane 4/1/2020

   Victoria, Texas, is a small South Texas town of approx. 65’000 people just 30 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. This area is considered as humid subtropical, and the temperatures regularly exceed 100°F for the months of June through August. A record high temperature of 111°F was recorded in September 2000 and a record low of 9°F in December 1989. This location displays one of the most extreme temperature differentials in the United States. The HST high-speed blower was used in the new plant design which replaced an older two-stage trickling filter design in the Victoria WWTP.

8. Leveraging Digital Twins For 'Smart Water' Analytics 4/1/2020

   Optimizing water and wastewater operations requires analyzing a lot of variables and the relationships among them. One good way to do that is with a digital twin — a digital parallel to a physical system — that can be used to test and develop new analytics or control strategies without disrupting real-time operations. Here are several examples of how to use digital twins to yield more efficient results.

9. What Happens When Wastewater Labor Is Infected With Coronavirus? 4/1/2020

   The spread of COVID-19 seems to have impacted every corner of the country, but what happens when it reaches indispensable members of our workforce, such as drinking water or wastewater utility employees?

10. Water Events Falling Victim To COVID-19 3/31/2020

    As the world hunkers down in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19, it's no surprise — and indeed vital for the cause — to see events and gatherings of all types get postponed or canceled. The water/wastewater industry is adhering to our collective social-distancing duty by calling off or rescheduling the following conferences, expositions, and meetings.